Improvement in molasses-pitchers



UNITED STATES PATENT a FICE.

THOMAS B. ATTERBURY, OF PITTSBUBG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JAMES S. ATTERBURY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOLASSES-PITCHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,236, dated June 24, 1873; application filed March 3, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, THOMAS E. ATTERBURY, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPenns'ylvania, haveinventedanew and improved Molasses-Pitcher; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification, in which---- t Figure l is a View of one side of the improved pitcher without the cap. Fig. 2 is .a diametrical section through the pitcher with the cap attached. Fig. 3 is a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to form, out of a vitreous material, a molasses-pitcher having a sloping pouring-lip, and to apply to the neck of such pitcher a drip-receiver or drip and cap, composed of metal, whereby all the advantages attending the metal-lipped neck and drip are obtained, with the additional advantage of having the lip and neck composed of vitreous material, as will be hereinafter eX- plained.

The following is a description of my improvement: In the accompanying drawings, A represents the body of the molasses-pitcher; B the neck thereof, and C the pouring-lip, all of which are made of glass or other vitreous material. The lip O is formed on the upper end or mouth of the neck B, and rises from the front part of a shoulder, a, a proper height, and slopes downward and backward,

terminatin g at a point near one-half the transverse diameter of the mouth in a horizontal plane, b. Between the shoulder or bead a and the plane I) there is a cylindrical portion, 0, on which is received the cylindrical portion 0 of a drip-cap, G, which latter is provided with a cover, H, that may be hinged to the flaring edge of the drip-cap, and provided with a fin ger-piece for opening it in the usual well known manner.

The drip-cap may be secured in place either by the well-known cements, or by means of a male screw formed on the cylindrical portion 0, and a female screw formed on the cylindrical portion 0 of the cap.

It will be seen that after pouring from the glass lip O, and returning the pitcher to an upright position, the annular flaring portion G will catch the drip and return it back into the pitcher.

Any design, shape, or size may be adopted in the manufacture. Instead of applying the flaring drip G horizontallyjto the pitcher, I prefer to have it inclined backward, so that the fluid which drips into it will freely flow backward, and thus enter the interior of the pitcher.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A glass molasses-pitcher made with the lip O and the drip-shoulder c, the lip and shoulder both being continuations of the cup or body of the pitcher, in combination with a metallic cap, as shown and described.

THOS. B. ATTERBURY.

Witnesses:

J. N. CAMPBELL, JAMES MARTIN, Jr. 

